We Must Work to Keep America Great By Continuing to Denounce and Oppose Dangerous, Deplorable, and Despicable Mentally Unstable Narcissist Donald Trump

Thursday, December 1, 2016

EDITORIAL – THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP’S
MENTAL CONDITION

A big
mistake made by many Americans is to treat Donald Trump as a “normal” and
“legitimate” politician – the same way one would treat any other major Party
politician.However Trump is neither
“normal” nor “legitimate”.

Those who
say he is “not ideological” are correct.He has no political
philosophy, beliefs, or convictions, as a “normal” and “legitimate” politician
would.His one and only belief and
conviction is “Trump is great and Trump is good”.

We must be
constantly reminded why Donald J. Trump is the only elected President who is
truly unfit to serve.

The main
reason is the fact that he suffers acutely from a mental disability known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

“Narcissistic personality
disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration
and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultra confidence
lies a fragile self-esteem that's
vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

A narcissistic
personality disorder causes problems in many areas of life, such as
relationships, work, school or financial affairs. You may be generally unhappy
and disappointed when you're not given the special favors or admiration you
believe you deserve. Others may not enjoy being around you, and you may find
your relationships unfulfilling.

Narcissistic personality
disorder is one of several types of personality disorders. Personality
disorders are conditions in which people have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways,
limiting their ability to function in relationships and other areas of their
life, such as work or school.

If you have narcissistic
personality disorder, you may come
across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you
don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance,
the best car, athletic club or medical care.

At the same time, you
have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have
secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel
better, you may react with rage or
contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior.
Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection.

Many experts use the
criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5),
published by the American Psychiatric Association, to diagnose mental
conditions. This manual is also used by insurance companies to reimburse
for treatment.

DSM-5 criteria for
narcissistic personality disorder include these features:

•Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

•Expecting to be recognized as superior even without
achievements that warrant it

•Exaggerating your achievements and talents

•Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power,
brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate

•Believing that you are
superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people

•Requiring constant admiration

•Having a sense of
entitlement

•Expecting special favors
and unquestioning compliance with your expectations

•Taking advantage of others to get what you want

•Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and
feelings of others

•Being envious of others
and believing others envy you

•Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

Although some features of
narcissistic personality disorder may seem like having confidence, it's not the
same. Narcissistic personality disorder
crosses the border of healthy confidence into thinking so highly of yourself
that you put yourself on a pedestal and value yourself more than you value
others.”

This mental
disorder makes Trump incapable of
intelligent and rational action, and incapable of dealing with criticism and
challenges like a mature adult.

“Antisocial
personality disorder, sometimes called sociopathy, is a
mental condition in which a person consistently
shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial
personality disorder tend to antagonize,
manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior.”

Among the
symptoms of this disorder include -

• Persistent
lying or deceit to exploit others.

• Being
callous, cynical and disrespectful of others.

• Arrogance,
a sense of superiority and being extremely opinionated.

• Lack of
empathy for others and lack of remorse about harming others.

• Failure
to consider the negative consequences of behavior or learn from them.

If you ask
me this describes Trump to a “T”.

Robert D
Flach

FYI

As of this
writing it appears that Hillary Clinton has at least 2.2 Million more actual
votes than Trump (estimated to probably end up at 2.5 Million).When you add the about 5.8 Million votes for
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein that means 8 Million more Americans voted
intelligently and rationally (i.e. against Trump) in the election than those
who did neither.

More proof
that America has been once again royally screwed by the Electoral College
system.

On Saturday night, a church offering
Spanish-language services in Silver Spring, Md., was vandalized with the
message, ‘Trump nation. Whites only.’

And over the weekend, several
college students at the New School in New York City awoke to find swastikas
scrawled on their dorm-room doors.

These are just a few of the
incidents of hate speech, harassment and
intimidation that have been reported in the wake of last week’s presidential
election. As of Friday evening {November
11}, the Southern Poverty Law Center had
counted 201 hate incidents in the first three days after the election, citing
local news stories, social media posts and submissions through the SPLC’s
website. By Monday, that number had more
than doubled, to 437.

‘We feel strongly that this outburst of hate crimes is directly
related to Donald Trump’s victory,’ Mark Potok, SPLC senior fellow, told
Yahoo News, noting that ‘a very large proportion’ of these cases included direct references to Donald Trump,
his campaign or the presidential election.”

That item
was a week ago.I expect the number of
incidents has grown since then.

* Trump
must truly sell off all his business holdings, so that he does not benefit in
any way from profits earned during his hopefully short tenure, and place the
proceeds in a blind trust. Turning the
businesses over to his kids is NOT AN ACCEPTABLE OPTION!

David J. Herzig talks about “Trump’s Emolument Tax Problem“ at THE SURLEY SUBGROUPWhile not a real 1040 tax issue, it is truly
an important one in the context of the current horror in the US (highlights are
mine) -

“When a businessperson who runs many active
businesses runs and wins for President, clearly there would be many second
order problems associated with inherent conflicts between running corporations
and the country. When President-elect Trump won the office, many of these
conflicts have bubbled to the surface.

For example, to avoid a conflict of
interest between benefiting one’s personal holdings and the Country’s best
interests, assets of the President are placed in a blind trust. As many have
pointed out, this works only when the President does not know the nature of the
holdings. Putting existing businesses
into a blind trust does not stop the President for knowing the underlying
assets of the trust. The conflict is not ameliorated by trust structure. Nor,
by the way, would it be fixed if President elect Trump divests but the family
continues to own the assets.”

“The danger of saying, ‘Just live your lives,
the sun still comes out tomorrow’ is that it’s true for some people, and it’s
very easy to forget that it’s not true for others. Not everyone is going to be
okay, and it’s incumbent upon everyone to remember that. You have to keep
remembering that this is an abnormal version of what we’ve been through before.”

And from
Steven Colbert:

“I’m all for ‘Give him a chance,’ but don’t
give him an inch. Because I remember everything he said [during the campaign],
and it’s horrifying.” But Colbert wasn’t all doom and gloom: he also offered a
three-step prescription for how to handle the next four years. “Vote on the
local level, get involved in local organization and get to know your neighbors.
There are reasons to get together that have nothing to do with politics. There
have to be things that we do that are not competitions, and politics are
jockeying for power. So get involved in your local community in significant
ways that helps you meet your neighbors.”